Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Law Society of Singapore vs Gopalan Nair. Singapore's legal system, the joke of the century.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore government and their Law Society are keen to cheer us up with some entrainment in these gloomy times with the world beset with wars and financial upheavals, they are succeeding very well indeed.

And after reading what I am about to say, if anyone had even any lingering doubts that the Singapore Legal System is rotten to the core, as stridently declared by the International Bar Association's 75 page report on Singapore, then that person cannot possibly have a straight face.

I have just received in my office in Fremont, California, USA, from the Law Society of Singapore, represented by Colin Ng and Partners, the firm who are prosecuting me, a huge box of papers, files and documents which presumably they are going to rely on to disbar me.

Since the issues in my case are very simple, such as, did I "insult" Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, a Singapore judge in my blog and should that result in my disbarment; I fail to see how all that paper, several thousand pages perhaps, almost entirely irrelevant, should have anything to do with my case, but in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore anything is possible and why should I complain if that is what they do.

It is simply a huge waste, not only of the Singapore taxpayers money not to mention the harm done to the timber resources of the world in that wasted reams upon reams of paper.

It contains large chunks if not all of my testimony in the Singapore courts which went on for several long days in Singapore in 2008, with numerous witnesses and numerous copies of the blog posts in this blog. An utter waste of the Singapore tax payers time and money.

In addition to that box, I have also received by Courier Mail a letter from this law firm that a hearing has been fixed to be heard at the Disciplinary Conference Room Singapore on Friday April 30, 2010 at 11.00 am which I am required to attend.

Seperately, with reference to the same hearing date in Singapore on April 30, 2010 in Singapore, I had received a letter from the Disciplinary Committee of Singapore in my office in California, USA on April 19, 2010 via fax and Email, also stating that "the Disciplinary Tribunal has directed the parties (including me) to attend the hearing of the Summons application.....on April 30, 2010 at 11 am" in Singapore.

Now you will recall that on Nov 26, 2008, when I was deported from Singapore after having spent 2 months in jail there for having made some unflattering remarks about Lee Kuan Yew's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean in this blog, I was deported from Singapore, prohibited from ever returning to Singapore unless I had the written permission of the Singapore government. In fact if I ever came to Singapore without permission, I stand to be arrested and sent to jail up to 2 years.

A deportation order was stamped in my American passport and a seperate similar order was handed to me prohibiting me from ever entering Singapore, before I left Singapore at the Immigration and Customs Authority office.

Can anyone with a head on his shoulders take the trouble to tell me how in Heavens can I come to Singapore from California USA on April 30th 2010 to appear at the Conference Room of the Disciplinary Tribunal in Singapore at 11 am, when I don't have any permission to do so, and what is worse, I will be arrested on sight if I ever landed there and thrown in jail!

You will recall from my earlier posts here, that I had written on numerous occasions not only to Lee Kuan Yew's immigration authorities but also to the Disciplinary Tribunal asking for permission to enter Singapore for my trial which is to be held from May 17, 2010 to May 21, 2010.

Except for an Email from Ng-Goh Siew Lee (Mrs) of the Singapore Immigration department dated Nov 13, 2009, acknowledging receipt of my letter, I have not received any permission to travel to Singapore at all!

Even though it remains the primary responsibility of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Disciplinary Tribunal, to arrange this so as to ensure that I can attend their hearings, they have told me not to bother them anymore and whatever I needed has to be directed to the Singapore Immigration authorities.

So as the matter now stands, I have been ordered to travel from California, USA to Singapore to appear before a Tribunal there on the 30th of April 2010 at 11am, even though they themselves have ordered me never to set foot in Singapore and if I did, sent to jail for 2 years!

And not just this. Up till April 19, 2010, I had never been informed by anyone of a hearing date of April 30, 2010. If they seriously expected me to appear at their hearing date in Singapore on April 30, 2010, should they not have informed me of this earlier, since I would have to purchase an airline ticket for travel before that date and a mere 10 days notice is surely not enough for someone to make arrangements to travel half way around the globe to Singapore! Which makes me think that perhaps they would prefer not to see me in Singapore at all!

Don't you think there is something wrong with this whole thing! How do you order someone to attend a hearing in Singapore while at the same time you refuse to give him permission to do it and what is more, you threaten to send him to jail if he ever came!

Is this what Lee Kuan Yew and his Tamil side kick, the Minister for Law K Shanmugam means as an example of their "best legal system in the world" and their "rule of law".

Is this a joke or do they really mean it?

We have had numerous examples of Singaporean "justice" to keep us entertained for some time.

Recently we have had the Kangaroo T Shirt case where Lee Kuan Yew's judge Judith Prakash sends 3 young men to jail merely for wearing T shirts engraved with pictures of kangaroos in judicial robes. Sending them to jail was bad enough but what was even worse was the fact that they were not within any courtroom at all!

Then we had my case when I was sent to jail for 2 months for criticizing Lee Kuan Yew's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for abusing the law to please her master, Lee Kuan Yew.

Then we had Dr. Chee Soon Juan being sent to jail numerous times for "speaking" in public because in that island, you need a permit to engage in the God given right to speak publicly!

Only a few days ago we had the case of 3 men from the Singapore Democratic Party sent to jail for merely walking along the road, which they term "a procession" and which in Lee Kuan Yew's island, a permit again is required. Only in Singapore would someone need a government permit to walk along the street in groups!

Even earlier we had the case of the same judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean allowing Lee Kuan Yew to win a defamation suit agsisnt Dr. Chee Soon Juan when the trial itself was conducted in her private office under closed doors with the Defendant prevented from calling any witnesses and when he objected and walked out of her office in protest, the judge and Lee Kuan Yew's lawyer privately had a meeting of sorts (Singaporean trial) and awarded the case to her boss (Lee Kuan Yew) after a few minutes!

But none of these legal procedures, amusing as they are, in Lee Kuan Yew's "rule of law" island can beat what they are doing to me.

In my case, they are in effect ordering me to enter Singapore on April 30, 2010 to attend a court hearing there, when they had previously ordered me never to enter their country and I will be arrested and sent to jail if I did!

Can anyone tell me a more interesting legal system that what that island of Singapore has, which not even Alice in Wonderland can beat?

Not wanting to spend any additional time sending them separate Emails to ask them what sort of joke are they trying to pull here, let me send this Blog post as an Email to all the relevant members of Lee Kuan Yew's rather entertaining group of people:

Your letters are welcome. We reserve the right to publish your letters. Please Email your letters to nair.gopalan@yahoo.com And if you like what I write, please tell your friends. You will be helping democracy by distributing this widely. This blog not only gives information, it dispels

Dear Gopalan,After reading what you have gone through with the Law Society, I am so relieved that I have moved to a more civilised country.

LKY may look down on the country that awarded him an honorary doctorate, but Australia will never do this to its own citizens without its people speak out.Is this lawful or is this a punishment for standing up to LKY?

It is so unfair that you cannot defend yourself. How low can a peak legal professional body go?

To, Rotten to the Core,Thanks very much for the concern. Of course if the Singapore govenment has any respectability, I would be unhappy with what they are doing. But as they have lost all credibility, and now have turned out to be a joke, all this going on doesn't bother me in the least. In fact I am grateful to them for doing all this as it gives me an oppurtunity to expose them. It would not have been possible if they did not continue acting so silly.

I need the ammunition to expose them. They are giving it to me.

Very soon they will disbar me, which will give me even more valubale material to expose the dictatorship.

In no country in the world except in North Korea where they will probably shoot you, would a lawyer be disbarred for writing a blog post in the Internet, and for yelling at police officers (which I deny anyway). So the disbarment which I look forward to, will help me tell the world the "rule of law" Singpaore style in the island.

I am thnakful to them, not saddened. They are as you can see making a fool of themselves, which is exactly what I want.

Your blog is fantastic. If you do not mind me using "Richard"'s comment as an example of why I agree with the term "dummies" when describing a certain group of Singaporeans.

I HOPE I AM ABLE TO GET THIS MESSAGE ACROSS TO RICHARD.

1. LKY is a very cowardly petty person who cannot accommodate the opposition. Singaporeans follow after him in cutting ties with ex-Singaporeans. The only exception is when they need the "quitter"/"foreigner" talent. That is when they call these ex-Singaporeans as Singapore-borned.Unfortunately, many of the countries do not treat their ex-citizens the same way.

2. LKY is also smart, he knows what he is doing in Singapore is improper. So, he create "Us vs them" divisive terms (eg "Singapore is unique", "foreign talent") to manipulate the compartmentalised minds of his "dummies" so that they will automatically filter out "foreigner" comments which make them uncomfortable.

When I meet people of different races who have worked in Singapore before, they know straight away that I am Singaporeans. This is because Singaporeans have a stupid how-lian looks.

@ Richard: yet people like us create comments and criticize the world leaders like Bush or Obama, terrorists or another country like Osama, laugh at Saddam, or attacking Malaysians who created Facebook groups of them saying all their rubbish is to be thrown in Singapore, and bashing PRs, people part of Singapore who have equal benefits to Singaporeans.

Also attacking Caucasian men for stealing women, and the Oh so many other hundreds of things the Singapore State controlled media straits times and Newpaper would rant of the world.

Us and Newpapers are the same and equal. I am Singaporean, and a proud one and I can say I am more of a Singaporean then the Lees and the corrupted judges of Singapore.

Foreigners have something we don't, and that's the Freedom of Speech and they have every right to exercise it with responsibility to comment about our country regardless of race, color, blood line.

Everyone is a hypocrite. But the scum of all hypocrites are those that make it blatantly obvious and don't even know that, *ahem* Richard *ahem*

This just shows that they are aware and perhaps abit worried of your blog getting noticed by more and more people around the world. It is very surpising that they are trying this form of scare tactic on you bearing in mind what they have done to you before. Those in the know will definitely laugh out loud. Too bad Mini Emperor does not have the power to hang anybody at immediate will or else the WHOLE MINORITY of Singaporeans and perhaps some radical majority would have been wiped out years ago.

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Determined to find the Truth.
Born Singapore, educated Winstedt School 2 (next to Monks Hill in Newton, Singapore) Raffles Institution, National Service, some travel in Europe, then law studies England, return to Singapore, practiced for 10 years, active Workers Party member, stood elections 1988 and 1991 in Singapore, was harassed and persecuted by Lee Kuan Yew for my political beliefs, left for USA, obtained asylum and admitted California State Bar, practice law ever since in Fremont California near San Francisco. Relinquished Singapore citizenship 2005 because I was not prepared to permit Lee Kuan Yew to unjustly retain my CPF funds if I remained Singapore Citizen. On principle, the only correct thing for me to do was to give it up, for my CPF funds. I am an American Citizen as of 2004.